Editing Mozilla Composer (section)

==Nvu==
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| caption                = Nvu 1.0 editing Wikipedia main page
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| developer              = [[Linspire]], [[Daniel Glazman]]
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| genre                  = [[HTML editor]]
| license                = [[Mozilla Public License|MPL]], [[GNU General Public License|GPL]], [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
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'''Nvu''' (pronounced ''"N-view"'') is a [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]],<ref>[http://www.nvu.com/ Nvu home page]</ref> based on Mozilla Composer. It is intended to be an [[open-source software|open-source]] alternative to [[proprietary software]] like [[Microsoft Expression Web]] and [[Adobe Dreamweaver]]. As a WYSIWYG editor, it is designed to be easy for novice users, and does not require any knowledge of [[HTML]] or [[CSS]] to use. It runs on [[Mac OS X]], [[Windows]] and [[Linux]] and incorporates [[Cascading Style Sheet]]s support and other improvements from software company [[Disruptive innovation|Disruptive Innovations]]. Nvu was the brainchild of Kevin Carmony, CEO for [[Linspire]], who wanted an easy-to-use, WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux users.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=日経クロステック（xTECH） |date=2005-06-30 |title=MozillaベースのオープンソースHTMLエディタ「Nvu 1.0」正式リリース |url=https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/free/ITPro/NEWS/20050630/163728/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=日経クロステック（xTECH） |language=ja}}</ref>  Under Carmony's direction, Linspire started and sponsored Nvu, hiring [[Daniel Glazman]], former [[Netscape Communications Corporation]] employee, to be the lead developer.<ref name=":0" />

===Development===
The original plan in June 2005 was to merge back the numerous changes into Mozilla Composer's source code tree.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} Since then the [[Mozilla Application Suite|Mozilla Suite]] has been discontinued (then reintroduced as [[SeaMonkey]]), and no one has merged the Nvu code back into Composer.

===Standards compliance===
[[File:NVU cssEditor screenshot.png|thumb|300px|Nvu CSS editor]]
Nvu complies with the [[W3C]]'s web standards. By default, pages are created in accordance to HTML 4.01 Transitional and use CSS for styling, but the user can change the settings and choose between:
* Strict and transitional [[Document Type Definition|DTD]]'s
* [[HTML]] 4.01 and [[XHTML]] 1.0
* CSS styling or the old <code>&lt;font&gt;</code> based styling.

The application includes a built-in [[HTML validator]], which uploads pages to the [[W3C's HTML Validator]] and checks for compliance.

===Release history===
* 0.1 was released on February 4, 2004
* 0.20 was released on March 25, 2004
* 0.3 was released on June 11, 2004
* 0.4 was released on August 10, 2004
* 0.5 was released on October 6, 2004
* 0.6 (1.0b) was pre-released on November 26, 2004
* 0.7 (1.0b2) was pre-released on January 6, 2005
* 0.8 (1.0b3) was pre-released on February 2, 2005
* 0.81 was pre-released on February 9, 2005
* 0.90RC1 was released on March 4, 2005
* 0.90 was released on March 11, 2005
* 1.0PR was released on April 5, 2005
* 1.0 was released on June 28, 2005

===Shift to KompoZer===
[[Daniel Glazman]], the lead developer of [[Nvu]], announced on September 15, 2006, that he had stopped official development on Nvu and that he was developing a successor as a [[Mozilla Foundation|Mozilla.org]] project. It is written from scratch and based on Mozilla trunk [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko 1.9]] and [[XULRunner]]. [[PHP]] and [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] would be supported. A community-driven fork, [[KompoZer]], maintains Nvu codebase and fixes bugs until a successor to Nvu is released.  Glazman's project is called [[BlueGriffon]].